1374 sats \ 8 replies \ @k00b 19 Jun freebie \ on: Thoughts on AirBnB reviews, positive and negative, and game theory ideasfromtheedge
As a matter of fact, I will either give a 5 star review, or not give a review at all.
A frequent traveller friend of mine says the same thing, for the same reasons.
AirBnB's incentives favor hosts over guests and favors both hosts and guests over the neighbors they disturb and neighborhoods they occupy. Although they frequently fuck over and lie to hosts too. They don't want honest reviews for hosts, because they don't want available listings to appear anything but amazing, so they're happy this self-censorship exists so that more people are duped into over-priced, sub-standard stays and they can collect their rent on you discovering the listing. They could easily solve this with an anonymous review system, but instead they have you leave one glowing public review and an honest private one for the host.
They don't have to behave in this incentive misaligned way, but like any good nihilistic ZIRP empire, they do the predictable thing and only serve their quarterly bottomline. They have all the reckless, woke, fake-nice, boldface lying ambition of a Silicon Valley tech company, but are operating in meatspace where the consequences are much more real and they do not give a fuck (and neither do their hosts1 or their guests2 who line up and blindly cheer them on).

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  1. "how else can I, an uncreative and unproductive lululemon wearing sociopath, run a debt-fueled residential real estate empire?" ↩
  2. "where else am I going to live like a local, throw a party, cook my drugs, and traffic people?" ↩
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101 sats \ 7 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 19 Jun
This got progressively more hostile as it went on. Can’t say I disagree, but this does seem like a passionate subject for you. Do you have personal experience to share?
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22 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 19 Jun
I used to live next an illegal party AirBnB that slept 16 and had a pool.
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10 sats \ 5 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 19 Jun
Oh man, yep. That’ll do it
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200 sats \ 4 replies \ @OneOneSeven 20 Jun
I remember reading about this back then lol, man 2 years flew by. #98011
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105 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 20 Jun
lol ironically, I sleep less now1, but I get to choose when I sleep at least.

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  1. I should probably rethink my 6 hour minimum experiment. 7 is probably the right number. ↩
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @OneOneSeven 20 Jun
I listened to this JRE podcast about sleep when it came out 6 years ago and started taking it a bit more serious. According to Matt Walker, 7 hours is the absolute minimum for 99.9% of people, but there's a rare gene that allows some people to run on as low as 5 hours.
Run, in this case I think, meaning not suffer from the effects of certain genes expressing or not based on the hours slept.
1:29:11 He starts talking about the numbers.
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105 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 20 Jun
Oh I’ve read Walker’s book. I’m definitely under doing it. I was just kind of curious for some reason.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 20 Jun
Ah I see, well thank you for your sacrifice lol. I'm assuming most of the extra hours went into working on SN 😂
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